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μελαγχολικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελαγχολικός μελαγχολική μελαγχολικόν

Structure: μελαγχολικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from mela/gxolos

Sense

  1. atrabilious, choleric

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "ἀλλ’ ἀναγκαῖον, οὐδὲ γελοῖον ἀλλ’ ὠφέλιμον πρᾶγμα ποιοῦμεν, ἐπιληπτικῶν παισὶ καὶ μελαγχολικῶν καὶ ποδαγρικῶν γυμνάσια καὶ διαίτασ καὶ φάρμακα προσάγοντεσ οὐ νοσοῦσιν ἀλλ’ ἕνεκα τοῦ μὴ νοσῆσαι· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 19 2:1)
  • "αἰτία δ’ ἡ κρᾶσισ τοῦ σώματοσ, ὥσπερ αὖ πάλιν ἡ τῶν μελαγχολικῶν πολυόνειροσ καὶ πολυφάνταστοσ, καὶ δοκεῖ τὸ εὐθυόνειρον αὐτοῖσ ὑπάρχειν· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 5013)
  • Τετάνου δὲ ὀσφύοσ, καὶ ἀπὸ μελαγχολικῶν διὰ φλεβῶν πνευμάτων ἀπολήψιεσ ὁκόταν ἐώσι, φλεβοτομίη Ῥύεται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.1)
  • "ὥσπερ οὐδὲ τὴν ἐλεφαντίασιν οἰόμαι σφοδρότητα τῶν ψωρικῶν τινοσ τούτων οὖσαν οὐδὲ τὸν ὑδροφόβαν τῶν στομαχικῶν ἢ τῶν μελαγχολικῶν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 6:16)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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